… and it’s much, much better than I anticipated. Proton has solved so many things. I’ve been dual booting on a smaller partition so far, but this has convinced me to wipe the whole disk and use it for Linux only. I might still keep a dual boot in case there is some edge case, but nothing so far has been an issue. I’ve been running Pop_Os! which I also have on my laptop since some year back. Previously I’ve also always had Arch on my laptop, but always stuck with Windows for my desktop just because of gaming issues.
I am happily gaming on Bazzite myself BTW.
It’s vanilla Fedora preconfigured for gaming on Proton, then made immutable.
…I’m just gonna say…
Read or visit the website first.
Or TLDR:
There’s also the DOCS .
A recent Video By FunnyHQ.
Sadly I just gave up on bazzite/aurora after tinkering with it for months.
Bazzite somehow nuked itself after a couple failed upgrades and eventually couldn’t even get to the boot loader. I searched around and the only GitHub issue basically said that there is corruption in the drive and to just reinstall.
so I tried aurora today, installed ok but then wouldn’t boot lol. Switched to pop os with cosmic and no problems.
Love the idea of ublue, but there are just weird problems with it for now.
What do you do though when you need to compile a driver for some hardware you have and install it manually on Bazzite? Recently had that case, and switched to Mint because of it.
driver for what? I put all my old people on bazzite so I’m not maintaining 3 versions of windows and several linux distros and so far everything works except one printer I had to install the driver via rpm-ostree.
Bluetooth dongle by Asus, doesn’t work properly without their own driver :/
I’m installing Bazzite on my Legion Go today, just curious how you like it, and if you ran into any problems.
Not OP, but for me bazzite has been great. The only issue I encountered was with a KDE extension breaking KDE on the next update, but I could just rollback and remove and admittedly you could only encounter this problem if you tinker with the desktop a lot
Do you know if there is a way to have the battery only charge to 80%. I use it mostly docked to the TV and windows has this setting but I haven’t found it in Bazzite yet (only had Bazzite for like 10 hours).
Strongly agree! I switched as well, so did my wife and its glorious. We‘re both avid gamers and no issues so far. We have strong opinions about intrusive anti cheat software so that helped.
I did make a windows vm for my wife since she needs to work with adobe sometimes and it seems to work perfectly so far.
Feel free to update on your journey.
Congrats on the move. I did the same to Linux Mint and have loved the experience completely. Gaming has been amazing due to Proton and Vulcan.
I’ve been running Pop!_OS for a few years now on my laptop and about a year on my gaming PC. I’ve been very happy with it. Even microsoft Flight Simulator works perfectly. I’ve built a win 10 VM in virtual box for the few pieces of software I can’t get going on Linux (old garmin GPS software and some ham radio programming software).
Linux has come an incredible way in terms of gaming and even general desktop usage, it’s still not quite there for me because a few things are quite lacking like HDR and Dolby Atmos.
